When have you earned the right to be clever?

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +1000

You’re in a city you don’t know, you’re hungry, and there are two restaurants on the same street. One is empty. The other is packed, with a small queue starting to form. You pick the packed one… and so does everyone else, without a second thought.

Stop and notice how little you used to decide that. You ignored the menus. You ignored the prices, the décor, the star ratings, the four-paragraph review someone left about the calamari. You used exactly one cue and threw the rest away. And you were almost certainly right.

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When have you earned the right to be clever?